My favorite paragraph rebuts her notion that the system was working that way when she arrived:
"Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark."
And it paid off big. She managed almost 12 million dollars of earmarks between 2000 and 2003, all for a town of less than 10,000 people. She's quite the reformer, isn't she.
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branchandroot
Great vid
Date: 2008-09-05 04:39 pm (UTC)McCain had criticized earmarks from Palin
Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.
By Tom Hamburger, Richard Simon and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 3, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,2482434.story
My favorite paragraph rebuts her notion that the system was working that way when she arrived:
"Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark."
And it paid off big. She managed almost 12 million dollars of earmarks between 2000 and 2003, all for a town of less than 10,000 people. She's quite the reformer, isn't she.